Klimov

Klimov
The JSC Klimov (or Joint Stock Company Klimov) presently manufactures internationally certified gas turbine engines, main gearboxes and accessory drive gearboxes for transport aircraft.
Originally established as Kirill Klimov Experimental Design Bureau in Saint-Petersburg under the direction of (Владимир Яковлевич Климов) (1892–1962), Klimov designed engines for Soviet aircraft based on Renault aircraft engine designs. It may have used the designation Aircraft Repair Factory (aviazavod, ARZ) 117 during the Soviet period.
History
The Klimov OKB was formed in the early 1930s to produce and improve upon the liquid-cooled Hispano-Suiza 12Y V-12 piston engine for which the USSR had acquired a license. At that time Klimov also manufactured motorcycles.
In 1946 the British government allowed Rolls-Royce to sell a number of Nene and Derwent V turbojet engines to the Soviet Union. Klimov OKB was given the task of "metrifying" the British designs, without the knowledge or permission of the West, as the VK-1 and RD-500.
Klimov United Engine Company is now located in Saint Petersburg.
It used the nationalised buildings originally erected by 1914 in the city's present-day Vyborgsky District for the joint stock Russian Renault automotive works, adding new workshop and administrative premises on the land in Bolshoy Sampsoniyevskiy Prospect avenue near the present Kantemirovskaya Street. By 2020 the premises have been vacated for redevelopment for a housing project.
Piston engines
M-100 – Hispano-Suiza 12Ydrs built under license
M-103 – improved M-100
M-105 – improved M-103; later redesignated as VK-105
M-110
M-120 – prototype inline 18-cylinder with three M-103A blocks in an inverted Y configuration; cancelled due to engine malfunction
During World War II, designations were changed from M (motor) to VK (the lead designer's initials)
VK-106 – prototype developed from M-105 with improved performance at lower altitudes; cancelled due to cooling problems
VK-107
VK-108 – prototype version of VK-107 with 1850 hp on takeoff; never entered production
VK-109
VK-110
VK-150
Gas turbine engines
RD-10 (along AI Ivchenko Progress (Motor Sich), KMPO & SNTK Kuznetsov (OAO Motorostroitel), elsewhere)
RD-33 and variants, derivatives: RD-5000B for UCAV UAV like MiG Skat
RD-93MA is a derivative of the RD-33 and is specifically designed for single engine light fighter jets. It uses the BARK-93MA automatic control system
Klimov VK-10M 22 to 24,200 lbf (97.87 - 107.647 kN)
RD-35 , agreement with Slovakian PSLM ZVL
RD-45
GTD-350
RD-500 , copy of the Rolls-Royce Derwent V
TV2-117 (built by Isotov from 1959–1964)
TV3-117 variants
TV3-117VM VMA for Mil and Kamov helicopters
TV3-117VMA-SBM1 Turboprop for the An-140 , MiG-110 , Be-32K
ТV7-117 variants
TV7-117S Turboprop for Aircraft
Klimov TV and VK derived Turboprop and Turbofan engines powerplants
Klimov TV17-117 new perspective engine, follow up of the TV family
VK-1
VK-3 turbojet
VK- (and TV-) turbojets turbofan, gas turbines, turboprop turboshafts
VK-13 turbojet turbofan
TR3-117 turbojet for UAV Tu-143
VK-800 , VK800V also at Motor Sich
VK-1500 variant or derivative of TV3-117 engine
VK-2500 enhancement of TV3-117
VK-650V 400 5 - 750 hp turboshaft for Ka-226 . VK-1600V project for Ka-62
PDV-4000 4 5000 hp (3 3.8 MW) turboshaft , turboprop
VK-3000 (VK300V also at OMKB OMO Baranov), VK3500 (TVa-3000) also at Motor Sich, VK-5000 and/or VK-6000 perspective
GTU-18P GTU-14F GTU-24R GTU-28N Gas Turbines
MBT and vehicles, wagon locomotives GTs
GTD-1000T, GTD-1250
GTD-1400, GTD-1500
Auxiliary power unit
GTDE-117
VK-100
VK-150
References
External links
'Full cycle engine development' at UEC Klimov
Klimov Aircraft APU (Auxiliary power unit)- General Information (archived copy)
Aircraft engine manufacturers of Russia
Aircraft engine manufacturers of the Soviet Union
United Engine Corporation
Gas turbine manufacturers
Manufacturing companies based in Saint Petersburg
Russian brands
Design bureaus